Gate-hinge.



No. 795,634. PATENTED JULY 25, 1 905.

' H. 'MBINEGKE.

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(7 z aa J. g #l WITNESSES: INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1905;

Application filed December 8, 1904:- Serial No. 236,041.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY MEINEOKE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Tomah, in the county of Monroe and State of Wisconsin,have made certain new and useful Improvements in Gate-Hinges, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in hinges for gates and similar heavyobjects wherein the weight of the gate or the like exerts a heavy strainupon the hinge; and one of the objects of the present invention is toprovide a novel construction whereby the weight of the gate will operateto tighten the hinge in place; and the invention consists in certainnovel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation, partlybroken away, of agate, the hingepost, and the hinge-sections embodying my invention; andFig. 2 is a vertical section on about line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

In the construction shown the gate A is connected with the hinge-post Bby the hinges C and D, having sections C and D secured to the gate, thehinge-sections C and D having eyes receiving pintles O and D on thesections C and D which are supported by the gate-post B. The sections Cand D are tapered from end to end and reversely, the upper section Ctapering from its wide outer end C inwardly toward its narrower end G,where it is supplied with the pintle C and the lower section D graduallydecreasing in width from its end D adjacent to its pintle D toward itsinner end D, and said sections C and D are beveled or sloped on theirsides C and D, and they fit in correspondingly-shaped mortises B and Bin the hinge post B.

Regardin the pintle ends of the sections C and D as their outer or frontends, it will be noticed that the upper section C gradually decreases inwidth toward said front end,- while the lower section graduallydecreases in width from its said front end toward its opposite or rearend. The purpose of this construction is to enable the weight of thegate, which draws upon the upper section 0 and pushes upon the lowersection D, to tighten the hinge-sections in the mortises or seats B andB in the post B, so that the heavier the gate and the greater the stressit eXerts upon its hinges the tighter the said hinges will be pressedinto contact with the fence-post which supports them. This, it will benoticed, is important, as it dispenses with the necessity of separatefastenings for the hinge-sections on the gate-post and also constructsthe said sections so that they will be selfsecuring and will be pressedtightly into 0011- nection with the gate-post by the weight of the gatewhen supported therefrom.

The construction is simple, inexpensive, and efliciently serves thepurpose for which it is intended.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure byLetters Patent, is

1. The combination of the upper and lower hinge-sections tapered betweentheir ends and gradually decreasing in width in reverse directions, theupper section toward its front end and the lower section toward its rearend, the hinge-post having seats for said hingesections, which seatstaper in reverse directions, the upper seat gradually decreasing inWidth from the front side of the post and the lower end toward the rearside of the post and adapted to receive the tapered hingesection and thegate supported by said hingesections substantially as set forth.

2. The combination substantially as herein described, of the gateposthaving undercut seats tapered in reverse directions, and thereversely-disposed wedges having hinge connections with the gate andfitting in said undercut seats, substantially as set forth.

HENRY MEINECKE.

Witnesses:

II. B. VANDELL, I-IENRY KUPPER.

